Driver: Alright during my high school golf season, I could drive pretty well, like through 18 I’d hook the ball maybe 2-3 times. Now when I drive, if I get good contact it hooks to the left bad, and when I hit it straight, it’s usually a low line drive like, rolls but barely any carry. I don’t understand it, I know that some of the reason could be from swinging fast at top resulting in a closed face at the bottom. When I slow down it stays open and slices. When I tee it up I swing under it, but when I tee it down, I hit line drives basically or chunk it. I hit a taylormade burner 08 model with 10.5 loft
Long Irons-Basically like the driver I’m hitting low line drives that would hook occasionally, I’m thinking of substituting for hybrids-at least 3 and 4 iron-but with hybrids it always-well at least before I switched them out-seemed like I was hitting them steep, I could occasionally hit them straight, but usually hooked them to, or like stated earlier hit it steep, one of the reasons I favored the iron over hybrid because if I were to hit in the rough it’d be steep.
Short game: When hitting a pitch shot and sometimes flop, I end up pullin it sending it about 10-20yrds left of the target. I don’t use the normal swing-flippin the wrist deal-and I’ve tried lightening up on my grip, but it still seems to favor going left, even if I move the ball back in my stance.
*spare the get a lesson
althought true, you need money to get lessons
indeed. I had kind of the same problem when I hit regular iron shots, but I lightened up my right hand grip which helped but not for the low irons and driver
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Golf in a technical sense is a game of opposites (Newton’s 3rd Law). The driver is the only club in the bag that doesn’t find the ground the head is actually designed to float or hover. So you attack the ball differently. The difference in the other shots is primarily shaft length, width of stance and allowing the club to find the ground.
Given that you haven’t got the money to get lessons the only way forward for you is to swing in front of a full length mirror and study how the clubhead reacts to your hand and arm movements.
Remember there is no lift in a golf shot, ball flight is determined by the loft of the club and your angle of attack to the ball. Ironically when your hands swing up the club comes down and your right arm is going straight prior to impact causing sporadic hitting on your woods and irons.
On your wedges the problem is caused by decelleration at impact. Impact stalling does not let the club get thru the ball. You need to pick a spot on the target side of the ball that you intend to swing thru to and making the hitting of the ball incidental. The way the mind works if you tell it to only hit the ball it will shut down once you first touch it and it will think it has done its’ job.
So in summary without lessons you need a full length mirror, understand there is no lift in the shot – ever, don’t let your right arm straighten before impact and to pick a spot past the ball on clubhead plane to swing thru to so you can avoid decelleration. With time, patience, practice, experimentation, and observation you will improve at your own pace.
When you have the ‘clams’ get some video analysis and hunt around for a real swing coach who has learnt ‘The Way’ to swing and doesn’t conceitedly teach ‘His Way’ to swing. To that end, avoid coaches that say "I believe .." and find one who says "We believe …" and you should be on the right track.
Because of the varied skill set of individuals moonlighting as golf instructors the doctrine I follow is "Caveat Emptor" (buyer beware) because a lot have the same scruples as a used car salesman!
Good Luck and be careful out there. You hear?
get a lesson
Dude I would go see a pro… those all sound like you are shutting the face down for some reason. I used to do that to and a pro got me straightened out. Also I recommend the hybrids, I switched and they are so much easier to hit.
I had the same problem for a while at the beginning of this summer, and the ideal thing to do is to go see a pro because he can see what exactly you’re doing wrong and correct it. In my case, I was not turning my hands at all in my backswing so the face was closed and when I followed through and released my wrists it would shoot the ball to the left. You may also want to look and see if you’re letting your hands get too low when addressing the ball, I find that if I don’t keep my hands high enough I pull the ball left…. It’s kind of hard to describe, but I hope maybe this will help.
To echo the other posters (whether you want to hear it or not) — you need some lessons, some live instruction, where a pro can see what you’re doing instead of asking any of us to guess.
Getting tips online is such a crapshoot, as you don’t know if you’re getting advice from a pro (highly unlikely) or a 14 year old kid (one of our junior members here seems to think himself a guru and comments, mostly wrongly, on everything) or a 20-something handicap hacker (who might well be worse than you).